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This Museum distributed films, study prints, and charts for knowledge in techology.
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A few public schools in Rochester, NY, are the first to use films for classroom instruction.
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Thomas Edison makes a series of historical films about the American Revolution. He was the first film producer for educational film.
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The US DEpartment od Commerce licensses educational stations.
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Pennsylvania makes a law requiring teachers take a course in visual instruction.
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trained MTI pilots
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In NYC, IBM computars were used in teaching.
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Students and faculty used computars around the world for programming.
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A young computer programmer from MIT, Steve Russell created the first computer game'Spacewar."
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Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Center invented this gadget. He named is a mouse because it had a tail coming out of it.
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Computar-Assisted Instruction movement emerges and schools were funded to use minicomputars.
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PLATO revolutionizes instruction, led under President William Norris.
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Teachers gain back control of instruction and administration using desktop systems.
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Non-computar students will be educationally disadvantaged, argues Arthur Luehmann.
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The focus is on software publishing intiative and teacher authoring software. Computars are teachers' tools.
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Schools begin to realize networked systems are cost-effective solutions to learning and meeting standards.
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World Wide Web (WWW) is born and teachers enter the 'information superhighway".
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ISTE sponsors create NETS ( National Educational Technology Standards to guide students and teachers in sjills.
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Online usage increases.
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International Society for Teaching in Education issues new, updated standards for teachers and administrators.